Barbecue Secrets

Disclaimer: This isn’t a simple recipe and it involves quite a bit
of prep work. The chile butter and mayo need to be made in advance,
so a little planning is necessary. Stuffing a disc of flavored
butter into the burger patties takes a little practice, but the
result will blow your guests...

Ian “Big Daddy” Baird is a sometime member of The Butt Shredders
barbecue team who has traveled in Asia. He tells me that one of the
best pieces of meat he’s ever eaten was a whole chicken thigh and
drumstick he purchased from a street vendor out the window of a
train as he waited to cross...

These little cylinders of tender, juicy pork are a staple of
Chinese cooking and are wonderful on the grill, and they’re also
ideally suited to planking. They have just the right amount of
surface area to cook quickly without losing moisture. They go with
all flavors of smoke, from cedar to mesquite. And they
take...